Kentucky: Lousy Education and Lousy Outcomes Part One

Kentucky and especially in the Louisville region brags about Kentucky and its upward mobility but the truth is that the schools in Louisville and surrounding areas are largely abysmal when looking at the district wide issues that exist in many of these school systems just in the Louisville region and not just Kentucky at large. 

Below is the 2016-2017 school rankings by district in the Commonwealth of Kentucky regarding the various school districts in the Louisville region. 

Louisville Jefferson County Public Schools                     122nd out of 159 school districts

Shelby County Public Schools (Shelbyville)                    133rd out of 159 school districts

Anchorage Indpendent (Louisville, KY)                           1st out of 159 school districts K-8th grade only

Oldham County Public Schools Lagrange, KY                17th out of 159 school districts

Meade County Public Schools Brandenburg, KY            44th out of 159 school districts

Spencer County Public Schools Taylorsville, KY            50th out of 159 school districts

Bullitt County Public Schools Shepherdsville, KY          75th out of 159 school districts

Nelson County Public Schools Bardstown, KY                93rd out of 159 school districts

Hardin County Public Schools Elizabethtown, KY          101st out of 159 school districts

So for our resident Louisville area scholars why are the East Louisville schools generally better off while the ones south of Louisville including Bullitt, Nelson, and Hardin with the exception of Shelby to the east and Jefferson being Louisville such crappy schools. Its not as if they haven't had decades to improve on their performance and Jefferson County is 2nd worst with the exception of Shelby County which is 133rd out of 159 school districts. 

Yet all the rage in Louisville and environs for years was to talk about how well they were doing and how Louisville was an up and coming city when in fact, the schools in Louisville in 2016 and 2017 fared worse than they did in 2010 when the JCPS was 118th out of 154 KY school systems.